I have published a book in pagemaker 6.5 in 2004. I no longer have the pagemaker program and all my files are in that format.

So I purchased the program (second hand with all docs and serial number) from a company in USA. I can not download the program to my

computer (a Mac) even though the disc is marked for Mac. I get a message that it is no longer supported. Have I wasted my money? Or is there a work around? I wish to have a reprint done of my book which has numerous underwater colour photos plus black and white.

You’d need a very old Mac to work with such old software. No current Mac is going to work. When Pagemaker 6.5 was released Macs ran OS9. To stand any chance you’d need an old Mac capable of running OS9 or one of the early PowerPC OSX Macs that could run in “Classic” mode.

I'm afraid not. No current Mac with an Intel processor can run anything designed for the previous PowerPC processor. Only very old PowerPC Macs running OSX “Tiger” came with a emulator capable of running “Classic” software.

What I now need to know is, If I purchase "In Design CS" (I think that's the name of the program), will I be able to open P 6.5 files with it or will I need to scan every page. Note that there are a number of colour photos and also black and white involved.